Fire-escape.



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Patents d Mom-10, 1914.

WITNESSES "E /MENTOR Micghcael d. H'z erald Z i I 8,

ATTORNEYS ,resident of Los Angeles,

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To all whom. it may concern i MIcHAEL J. Frrzonn- Be it known thatI,

United-State's, and a ALD, a citizen of 'the Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Fire-Escape, of which the following isv a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to fire escapebal-Q comes a d ladders,

and particularl'y'to a ladder normally supported abovethe first balcony and adapted to be lowered to the street in an emergency. I provide guides on the first andsecond balconies in which the ladder has movement, and a novel device on one balcony which will hold the ladder in the raised position above'thefirst balcony, said device-being readilyzmovable to release the ladder and permitit to be lowered, The invention will be particularly. ex-

' plained in the specific description herein after to be given.

Reference is to be had totheaccompanying drawings forming a part 'of vthisspecifiin which similar characters of refercation, ence indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is cape ladder and balconies having my invention applied thereto; Fig. 2 isa sectional plan view on an enlarged scale, the section being taken on the line42-2 of Fig. l yand Fig. 3 is a detail transverse vertical section cape balcony of a the first-balcony. nies guideslO are secured, and extend out-1] spaced'apar't to receive the ladder A between; j

on the line 3'3 of'Fig. 2.

form,; comprising side rails," and rungs fa; "Iheletter B -indicatesf the. second fire es-' building, and the letter C The ladder A-jmay be 'ofany approved,

wardl'y'parallel with each' -ot11er, and are them. The guides are formed with T..-- h aped recesses 11, in which the side rails-"of thelad- "der move the rungs extending between the guides 10 and'through'the contractedjopenrails '0, or other portioniofthe balcony, a bar.

'ings 12.0f the T shaped 'recessesrl g'lo' the l4 iSwPlVOllBd, as at 13,"andat a po nt be in the county ofa front elevation of the fire es-- 2 sisting 'of a bar pivoted at one end .sil pport acent 'to the guideway to swing I tweenthe pivot and the free end of the said 1 Specification of Letters Patent. .Patefit d N 1Q, 1914 Application filed December 28,1912. Serial No. 739,057.

bar, which free end constitutes a handle, the

' bar is given such a formation as to provide a lateral extensionto extend beneath 'the ladder rung and sustain the ladder. In the form shown, the bar 14: is formed with aubend 15in an outer-direction immediately ad acent to the pivot 13, such U bend constitilting the lateral extension and the ladder- .engaging member. It will be observed from Fig. 2, thatthe bar 14: may be swiing to ex tend longitudinally of the balcony, with the member 15 extending beneath a ladder rung a. Thus the ladder. may be raised from the v a ground to extend between the first and sec-' ond balconies, as shown in Fig-1', and willthus be sustained in position when there is no occasion for the occupants of-the build :ing to, descend'fron'i the first balcony to the 1 street. Incase oftfire, however, the bar 1 L may be' swnng on its pivot to withdraw the :member 15 from beneath the adjacent ladj'der rung to permit the ladder to drop, the

ladder having movement -in-. .the guides 10 on the twobalconies. The length, ofthe ladder is 'such that when dropped it will still be heldin the guides of the lower :bal cony C, and firmlyj-sustainediiii position to enable the occupants of the building to de-.

'- scend with perfect security,

he described construction afiords' a practical means for carrying my invention into reflect, but I would-state in conclusion, that I do not limitmyself strictly tothemechanical details herein illustrated, since, mani- "festly the same can 'be' considerably "varied :with'out' departure from the spirit-of the in- Having thus. described my' f invention, I

{me-ans, of spaced members forming a guideway adaptedto 'iieceive aladder for vertical.

sliding movement, and aladder stop con-:3

in a planetransversely to said guideway,

said bar having a lateral U-bend at the pivoted end, forming a stop projecting at one In testimony whereof I have signed my side, the bar extending from the said bend name to this specification .in the presence of in the form of an elongated handle and betwo subscribing Witnesses. ing adapted to swing in an arc in the hori- MICHAEL JOHN FITZGERALD.

5 zontal plane to bring the lateral bend into Witnesses: or out of the plane of the guideway, to en- ANDREW KATUS, gage or disengage the ladder. J. A. Tom). 

